Application
This unit describes the skills and knowledge required to design, build and test an advanced user interface (UI), including interaction techniques, rich controls, improved client-side validation, customisation and personalisation, graphics and multimedia.
It applies to individuals who work as user-interface designers and who are responsible for managing, and implementing, complex UI design.
No licensing, legislative or certification requirements apply to this unit at the time of publication.
Elements and Performance Criteria
ELEMENT | PERFORMANCE CRITERIA |
Elements describe the essential outcomes. | Performance criteria describe the performance needed to demonstrate achievement of the element. |
1. Plan the UI design | 1.1 Determine the appropriate client technology, development tools, and platform for writing the UI 1.2 Review the conceptual design with the client, and edit as required 1.3 Design the UI layout and structure |
2. Implement interaction techniques | 2.1 Apply the interaction design patterns 2.2 Implement client-side validation |
3. Implement a customisable and personalised UI | 3.1 Build a customisable UI, to allow users to select their own customised version of the underlying application 3.2 Build a personalised UI to improve user experience |
4. Implement the graphics and multimedia | 4.1 Create and display the graphics 4.2 Add the multimedia content to an application |
Evidence of Performance
Evidence of the ability to:
apply advanced techniques in order to create a complex user interface (UI)
determine the client’s technology, development tools, and the UI platform
plan the layout and structure
review the conceptual design with the client
implement interaction techniques, including interaction design patterns and client-side validation
implement a customisable and personalised UI
create and display the graphics
add the multimedia.
Note: If a specific volume or frequency is not stated, then evidence must be provided at least once.
Evidence of Knowledge
To complete the unit requirements safely and effectively, the individual must:
describe the concepts of programming, including:
client-side programming
object-oriented programming
web design programming in hypertext markup language (HTML), cascading style sheet (CSS), and JavaScript
describe the purpose of UI prototyping
outline the documentation requirements for UI development.
Assessment Conditions
Gather evidence to demonstrate consistent performance in conditions that are safe and replicate the workplace. Noise levels, production flow, interruptions and time variances must be typical of those experienced in the programming and software development industry, and include access to:
an integrated development environment (IDE)
the client system, and the server system
multimedia tools
specific tools and licences, depending on the particular platform.
Assessors must satisfy NVR/AQTF assessor requirements.
Foundation Skills
This section describes language, literacy, numeracy and employment skills incorporated in the performance criteria that are required for competent performance.
Skill | Performance Criteria | Description |
Reading | 1.1, 1.2 | Interprets, and critically analyses, complex texts and applies the appropriate strategies to construct meaning from complex texts, when reading and interpreting technical information, and determining suitable technology and tools |
Writing | 1.3, 2.1, 3.1, 3.2, 4.1, 4.2 | Prepares documentation, expressing ideas and exploring complex issues, that is constructed logically, succinctly and accurately Writes and edits computer code, and technical data, ensuring the correct syntax and accuracy |
Oral communication | 1.2 | Demonstrates flexibility in spoken texts by choosing appropriate structures, and strategies, in a range of contexts, and applies appropriate strategies to extract the main ideas from oral texts, when communicating with the client about the conceptual design of UI |
Numeracy | 1.3 | Selects from, and applies, an expanding range of mathematical and problem-solving strategies in a range of contexts, when designing layout and structure |
Get the work done | 1.1, 1.3, 2.1, 2.2, 3.1, 3.2, 4.1, 4.2 | Understands the key principles and concepts underpinning the design, and operation, of digital systems and tools, and applies these when troubleshooting existing technology Seeks to understand the potential of new technology, in the context of implementing interaction, and customisable features, and graphics and multimedia, into the UI |
Sectors
Programming and software development